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LimeWire Gives Up the Ghost, Shuts Down P2P File-Sharing Client

in Media on October 26, 2010 at 12:57 pm PT

Last spring, music file-sharing service LimeWire suffered a crushing blow in federal court. This is the net result: The company will stop distributing its core software, and will disable “hundreds of millions” of existing downloads. It’s the victory the big music labels have been seeking for some time.

Actually, You're Taxing Our Intelligence …

in News on March 28, 2008 at 5:39 am PT

Back in 2000-2001, when the Recording Industry Association of America was still trying to recover from its CD price-fixing scheme with poorly reasoned justifications for CD price inflation (“Listen, if CD prices were governed by the Consumer Price Index, you’d be paying $33.86 for them instead of $12.75!”), a little company called Napster came calling. [...]

Actually, You’re Taxing Our Intelligence …

in News on March 28, 2008 at 5:39 am PT

Back in 2000-2001, when the Recording Industry Association of America was still trying to recover from its CD price-fixing scheme with poorly reasoned justifications for CD price inflation (“Listen, if CD prices were governed by the Consumer Price Index, you’d be paying $33.86 for them instead of $12.75!”), a little company called Napster came calling. [...]